3. New Friends

"Daidouji-san I've longed for your love my whole life" – the boy standing next to her whispered at her ear.

The scene was wonderful, the stars were shining with all their might trying to compete with the round silver queen at the centre of the sky. They were both standing on a terrace, she was dressed in a knee-length, dark blue dress while her hair was tied in a beautiful crown-like way. He was wearing black smocking and handed her a perfectly white flower as he said his line.

Suddenly a sound began to disturb them, the raven-haired girl looked everywhere to find out where that annoying sound came from.

Sonomi, seeing that her daughter wouldn't answer, entered the purple bedroom only to find Tomoyo fast asleep. She sat on the edge of the bed and carefully shaked her shoulder to wake her up.

"Wake up sleeping beauty, breakfast is server" – Tomoyo slowly opened her eyes, only to find her mother smiling at her sleepy face.

"I'm coming" – she finally replied, sitting up. She saw her mom leaving her alone in her room again and closing the door behind as she left.

"It was just too good to be true" - She remembered her lovely dream of the boy who loved her so much - "Well... I think I still have the same life as always..."

She dressed for breakfast and ran down the stairs straight to the kitchen. Her amethyst eyes seemed kind of far, she was somewhat disappointed to know it was only a dream... again. It was always like this, such a beautiful dream, but it was still only a dream.

"So they arrive today grandpa? I'm sure Tomoyo would love to meet them!" – Tomoyo could overhear her mother said. Who could they be? Anyway, she would wait too see because she didn't feel in the mood to ask.

"What's wrong honey?" You seem kinda down today..." – her mother inquired.

"Its nothing mom"

"I think you'd like to know who's coming to the house next door today Tomoyo-chan" – her grandpa added.

"Huh? Someone next door?" – She remembered a cream and red house just next to this one.

"Do you remember Sakura-chan?" – Sonomi gave her a quick inquisitive look.

"Sakura...-chan?" – The daydreaming girl was kinda confused, she could recall a little girl with brown hair and green emerald eyes, but in her memory she was about two-three years old – "I think... not very well though"

"Of course you wouldn't, you were like about three years old when you met her for the first time, on that Christmas we spent in Tomoeda"

That's right, they met when they were both little, now they both were fifteen.

"I bet she has changed a lot since then..." - Tomoyo was lost in her thoughts trying to remember as much as she could about the green-eyed girl when a voice interrupted her.

"She and her friends are going to spend the summer on the house next door, so there will be plenty of time for you to get to know them" – Masaki gave a quick gaze to the wall clock across the room – "They should be here in any moment, I didn't told her you were coming though, I only told her I had a surprise" – he smiled.

Almost as if he had said the magic words, they heard a car approaching. Tomoyo quickly stood up, forgetting completely about her 'depression', and went to the window.

There was a blue car, followed by a red and a white one. The first one parked on the house's road, the other two just dropped more or less five teenagers and continued their roads. Overall there were twelve people on the road, three adults and the rest seemed all her age. The one who seemed older waved to the other cars as the left.

Tomoyo thought about one of her many wishes for her perfect summer: friends. So there she had a chance, maybe this was really going to be the best summer of her life, and maybe all her dreams will come true this time.

Someone knocked at the door, the eldery man opened it. It was Sakura-chan.

"Grandpa!!" – The girl hugged Masaki as he smiled – "I'm so glad to see you! So, what was your surprise uh? Tell me please! C'mon grandpa, tell me, I wanna know!"

A sweat drop ran above Tomoyo's head - "Surely she's very energetic..."

"Ok, ok, calm down" – he looked to where her other granddaughter was – " Hey, come here" – he softly said as he held his hand out to the amethyst- eyed girl.

Tomoyo grabbed his hand and a sweet smile crossed her face.

"Hi, I'm Tomoyo Daidouji, nice to see you again"

"Hi Tomoyo-chan! I'm Sakura Kinomoto, but you can call me Sakura-chan if you wish" – she flashed a smile as she took Tomoyo's hand - "C'mon, I'll introduce you to my friends, I'll give her back later grandpa!" – She ended waving her grandpa from the road.

"Hey Tomoyo-chan, I remember you from when we were younger, once you spent some holiday with us at grandpa's place in Tomoeda, we used to play together a lot, do you remember?"

"Sure, but you weren't this energetic back there" – she giggled a little.

"Oh well, I think dad gives me too much vitamins lately" – they both laughed.

The energetic girl guided Tomoyo to the garden in the next house, where the rest of her friends were. The raven-haired girl was very happy, she almost hadn't say anything and was already making friends.

"Hey everybody!" – She called everyone's attention as she grabbed Tomoyo by the shoulders – "This is my cousin, her name is Tomoyo Daidouji"

They both heard some replies like "Hey Daidouji" or "Nice to meet you", "I hope we become good friends", "Welcome to the gang" or something like that.

Sakura started talking again after that pointing in some direction to make her look that way.

"The one at the back is my dad, those two are my brother Touya, and Yukito- san, a friend of his. This one is Syaoran Li, and his cousin Meiling Li, those two fighting are Takashi Yamazaki and Chiharu Mihara, the one with the blue t-shirt is Eriol Hiragizawa, the ones next to him are Shigeru and Mamoru Okawa, they are twins, and those two are Rika Sasaki and Naoko Yanagisawa"

"Hi" –said Tomoyo shyly – "I'm very pleased to meet you"

Immediately after that Mamoru, one of the twins, left his conversation with the blue-eyed boy and his twin unfinished and walked towards Sakura and Tomoyo.

Surely Sakura's cousin caught his attention. Actually, not only his, but he was the only one that let that out.

He introduced himself, even though Sakura had already told Tomoyo everyone's names, he vas very sociable, no doubt. His raven hair matched perfectly his grey eyes. They talked for a while before his brother and the blue-eyed boy joined them.

"Hey Sakura-chan I didn't know you had such a pretty cousin" – the boy in the blue t-shirt exclaimed as he took Tomoyo's hand and kissed it like the Britain gentleman he is. The object of this compliment only smiled.

Mamoru was kinda irritated by this, he was very competitive when the times comes, and he thinks the time has come. He turned at Eriol with a killer glare in his eyes and thought:

"This means war Hiragizawa..."

"Who wants ice-cream?" – Yukito asked as Touya and him entered the house after they had gone to buy some.

They all had a cone of ice-cream and then decided to go out for a walk. Syaoran, Sakura, Shigeru, Rika and Naoko were at the head.

"Syaoran! Wait for me!!" – his cousin shouted from far away.

"Hurry up you guys! Or you'll be left behind" – Sakura called the rest.

Meiling started running so she could catch up with Syaoran, even though their engagement was broken already she said that he couldn't take care of himself properly yet. Yamazaki and Chiharu were a little apart from the group, walking on the right side of the road, as the rest walked on the left side, once in a while they could hear Chiharu yelling at him 'Don't say any more lies!!' but everyone was used to it, except for Tomoyo who constantly asked if they were okay.

The other three, Eriol, Mamoru and Tomoyo were left behind, well just a little, they were like ten steps behind Sakura and the rest. The three of them were talking.

"So you live in Tokyo Daidouji-san" – Eriol inquired.

"Yup, my mom and I, but she's often out of the country for business trips"

"You must be very popular there in Tokyo" – Mamoru affirmed. Tomoyo giggled a little.

"Not really"

Ok this was Eriol talking with Tomoyo and Mamoru trying to caught her attention. Rika was watching this, she let out a little laugh, making Tomoyo to look towards her. The brown-haired girl just smiled at her.

Suddenly a stone 'accidentally' rolled over to Eriol's path, he tripped with it and landed with one knee and his hands on the floor.

"Hiragizawa! Are you okay?!" – The raven-haired girl asked with concern clearly heard in her voice.

"Yes, I think I didn't see the rock" – he smiled at her as she helped him to stand up again.

In a moment that Tomoyo looked away he whispered something to Mamoru.

"What did you do that for?" – he said with a frown on his face, well he did know why he had done that, but that was what made it so funny, the idea of making Mamoru exasperate was attractive, but so was the girl at his side.